http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us I'm not sure New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has ever had that promising a future in the national Republican Party. He doesn't toe the teabagger line, and it's difficult to imagine Grover Norquist of tax pledge fame supporting him. Even... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14733854-senatorial-pick-may-be-key-for-christie Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:33:42 -0700 He's back? Would it be too terribly rude to ask why? The news is that Mitt Romney is re-emerging into the spotlight, making an appearance on Fox News Sunday to give his critique of the first 52 days of Barack... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14154386-what-on-earth-is-romney-doing-on-a-tv-news-show Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:18:09 -0800 All right, you're President Obama. You've just been re-elected by a fairly impressive margin, the first president in half a century to get more than 50 percent of the vote in both your election and your re-election. Your party has... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14117272-what-can-obama-accomplish-maybe-just-truth Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:25:48 -0800 You know your political system is in trouble when it becomes all about winning, no matter what tactics are used. After losing the popular vote five times in the last six presidential elections, and with demographics looking worse and worse... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13908936-lets-do-our-elections-the-right-way Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:37:20 -0800 Several months ago, House Speaker John Boehner made an interesting comment about Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Someone had asked Boehner if he thought Republicans really liked their nominee, or if he was just the lone survivor of a weak... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13295441-a-close-race-but-a-294244-win-for-obama Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:54:12 -0800 So former vice president Al Gore thinks we should abolish the Electoral College. He says it's a relic of a long-ago time when states were concerned with how much power they had in what started as a loose confederation of... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13016919-abolishing-electoral-college-doesnt-go-far-enough Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:40:31 -0700 Is Mitt Romney done? Every day seems to bring some new goof, another way for people to see that Romney isn't even capable of campaigning for president, let alone being president. In a video from earlier this year, published on... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13004561-mittens-not-just-arrogant-hes-also-wrong Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:30:05 -0700 Let's talk about welfare. Call it what is is -- the dole, relief, entitlements, whatever -- but it's time to start cutting back on welfare at the federal level. You might be surprised to know that poor people dining on... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12691178-welfare-helps-the-rich-more-than-the-poor Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:58:13 -0700 Could there possibly be anyone in this country more interested in scaring Americans to death than the National Rifle Association? Could there possibly be people whose standard arguments are further from the truth than the NRA? Let's look at the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12662785-all-nra-wants-to-do-is-scare-you-and-raise-money Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:25:49 -0700 "I don't care what you say about me as long as you spell my name right." -- attributed to many There's a story, perhaps apochryphal, of someone who appeared on the Jerry Springer Show only to be humiliated by his... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12644459-one-way-to-deal-with-the-nuts-who-shoot-people Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:18:32 -0700 I have a friend who is about as far away from me as he could be politically without being a Nazi. He sent me this list of his complaints about the way things are these days, and I thought I... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12521464-point-and-counterpoint-our-system-of-government Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:17:31 -0700 When I was 10 years old, I used to spend part of every summer in the most idyllic place in the world. Oh, I know I'm exaggerating. I know there were places a lot more peaceful than Crestline, Ohio, where... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12514796-dont-let-the-real-america-slip-away Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:21:25 -0700 What the hell are states' rights? I know what they were in 1789, and I know what Southerners asserted they were in the runup to the War Between the States. I also know what they were proved not to be... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12501229-states-rights-about-as-modern-as-buggy-whips Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:58:54 -0700 This is beginning to look like an extremely ironic presidential election. Ever since Barack Obama took office, folks on the right have been attacking his legitimacy. They started out calling themselves tea baggers (until someone told them what that meant)... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12093731-does-anyone-in-the-world-really-like-mittens Sat, 05 May 2012 15:30:44 -0700 There is one thing that completely bumfuzzles me when I hear people saw it about Rep. Paul Ryan's venture into Social Darwinism. At least he has a plan. No one else in Washington has a plan. I pretty much figure... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11885903-ryan-and-the-other-randians-truly-hate-america Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:15:55 -0700 I have 17 hoodies in my closet. Two are from my college fraternity, three are from Surf City (Huntington Beach, Ca.), others are from various universities (Texas, Ole Miss, SMU, UCLA, Virginia, George Mason) and one is from the Buddy... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11779575-it-isnt-the-hoodie-or-the-skin-color-its-about-money Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:33:50 -0700 It isn't often that I feel sorry for Republicans. This, however, is a truly bizarre election year. In a year when voters are completely fed up with Wall Street fat cats -- the so-called "1 percent" -- the only candidate... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11516674-its-mittens-and-ricky-and-newt-oh-my Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:13:37 -0800 Is it possible to be too rich to be president? I think it might be, and I think that might be a lesson Mitt Romney is about to learn. After dragging his feet for weeks, and maybe mortally wounding his... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11353115-romney-looking-more-like-a-stiff-every-day Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:56:58 -0800 This piece may seem partisan, but it isn't. It isn't to urge folks not to vote for a Republican this year, but it is intended to explain to people why electing W. Mitt Romney president in 2012 might be the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11298664-why-mitt-romney-will-never-be-president Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:28:45 -0800 We have taken the Bill of Rights for granted for a long time in this country. So much so that I would be surprised if one American in 100 could enumerate all 10 amendments and what they contain. I know... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10603493-freedom-of-religion-may-be-an-outmoded-concept Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:25:44 -0700